Bottle-container.



W. F. KRUEGER.

BOTTLE CONTAINER.

APPLICATION men OCT. 11. 1911.

Patented Aug. 6, 1918.

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WILLIAM FREDRICK KRUEGER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE-CONTAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1918.

Application filed October 17, 1917; Serial No. 197,077.

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My invention is more particularly intended for embodiment in boxes for holding bottles, such as beer bottles, soda water bottles, etc.

Objects of the invention are to provide a box of the indicated character adapted to accommodate the maximum number of bottles in the minimum space, whereby to save shipping and storing space; to provide a box in which the bottles will be held sidewise, whereby to maintain the corks or stoppers moist for preventing entrance of air. and the spoiling of the contents; to provide a box in which the bottles will be securely held and be readily accessible, thereby avoiding loss of time in locating unemptied bottles; and to provide bottle-holding means of a character to eifectively retain the bottles in position and prevent their breakage should the box he dropped.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views, it being understood that the drawings are merely illustrative of one example of the invention.

Figure 1 is a face View of a bottle container embodying my invention with one of the side closures in the open position.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section with one of the closures open and partly broken away;

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section with one of the closures open and partly broken away.

In carrying out my invention in practice, the body 10 of the box is made four-sided leaving the two broader sides open, and said broader sides are closed by closures 11 in the form of doors hinged at one side and provided at the opposite side with suitable fasteners here shown in the form of a spring latch 12 to engage a fixed catch 13. The numeral 1& indicates the opposite ends of the box, and 15, a central partition gained into the box ends 14 to lie parallel with the open sides. The partition 15 divides the box body 10 into two compartments and at the oppo site faces of the said partition, my improved bottle-holding means is arrange j The bottle-holding means at each side of the partition 15 is the same and consists of a wire, strip, or like element 16, extending between the box ends and fastened to the latter, by giving the'end of said element a suitable formation to receive a fastener or To effect the fastening in the v fasteners. present example each end portion of the element 16 is bent laterally as at 17 along the inner face of the adjacent boxend 14 and then again at right angles or approximately so as at l8, said bent portions 17, 18 beingsecured respectively by staples 19, 20, driven into the inner face of the box ends, Each element 16 is. bent to form. alternately smaller and larger curved seats or sockets 21, 22 to receive respectively the necks and bodies of the bottles A, alternate bottles being oppositely disposed so that the body of one bottle is accommodated between the necks of two adjacent bottles. The material of the element 16 is resilient and the clamps 21, 22 are curved to embrace the bottle necks and bodies for something more than onehalf the circumference thereof, the bottles being positioned by pressing the same into place, the sockets yielding to permit a firm seating of the bottles. Two of the elements 16 are disposed at each side of the partition 15 and the sockets 21, 22 of the respective elements at a side of the partition are out of register, a socket 22 in one element being disposed opposite to a smaller socket 21 in the adjacent element 16.

In connection with the smaller seats or sockets 21 I produce in the element 16 brackets 23 which are formed by twisting the resilient element 16 at the bottom of the socket as at 24, the inner end or base of the bracket being bent laterally into a foot 25 which is secured as by a staple 26 to a face of the partition 15. Thus, the end fastenings of the element 16 and the brackets 23 thereof sustain the said element against longitudinal or transverse strains and thereby maintain the respective bottle seats of said element in proper position while affording the resili ency desirable to prevent breakage of the bottles.

It will be seen that the closure 11 at either side of the box may be open and the bottles may be firmly sustained in horizontal position and readily open to view to facilitate the selection of such bottles as have not been emptied.

I Wish to state in conclusion that although the illustrated example constitutes a practical embodimentof my inventioml do not limit myself to the mechanical details herein illustrated, since manifestly the same can-be considerably varied Without departure from the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. A bottle container including a boxhavingan open side and a rigid member parallel With said open side, a bottle-retaining element extending between the ends of the box and formed with sockets to receive bottles, and separate brackets on said element and rigid therewith, the respective brackets constituting means to secure said element at separated points to said rigid member.

2. A bottle container including a box having an open side and a rigid member parallel With said open side, a pair of parallel bottleretaining elements extending between opposite ends of the box and formed with resilient clamps of alternately larger and smaller size constituting seats for the bodies and necks of bottles, and brackets on said elements and extending from the smaller clamps thereof, said brackets constituting means to secure said elements to said rigid member at separated points.

3. A bottle container including a box having an open side and a member rigid with the box and parallel With the open side, and a pair of bottle-retaining elements disposed between opposite ends of the box, each element being bent to form alternately a larger and a smaller clamp to constitute respec tively seats for the bodies and necks of bottles, the material of each element being twisted at the smaller clamps and continued laterally in the form of brackets, the said brackets each having a laterally bent foot, and means securing the feet of the respective brackets to the said member.

WILLIAM FREDRICK KRUEGER.

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